Stars Can Eat Their Planets…and Spit Them Back Out Again

Stars Can Eat Their Planets…and Spit Them Back Out Again

[ad_1] As tragic as it is, engulfment of a planetary object by its stellar parent is a common scenario throughout the universe. But it doesn’t have to end in doom. A team of astrophysicists have used computer simulations to discover that planets can not only survive...
ESA – Galactic seascape

ESA – Galactic seascape

[ad_1] A jellyfish galaxy with trailing tentacles of stars hangs in inky blackness in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As Jellyfish galaxies move through intergalactic space they are slowly stripped of gas, which trails behind the galaxy in...